Your tax liability, and hence your assets and income are not always completely confidential in Switzerland!
In certain Cantons your confidential details can be seen by anyone - for a fee!
http://www.beobachter.ch/wohnen/arti...e-steuerdaten/ Google translation:
So public is your tax information. Issue: Beobachter Magazine 11/05
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Preview for a third party without restriction, respectively, with minor conditions possible
Schwyz, Neuchâtel, Vaud
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Preview for third parties with restrictions possible
Zurich: Taxpayers may blocked files;
Bern is at the discretion of individual communities,
Lucerne, Uri: Data may not be published,
Schaffhausen, Valais access rights depending on the location,
Freiburg: only possible for the income and property taxation of natural persons;
St. Gallen, Appenzell Outer Rhodes: Interest proof needed taxpayer is notified of inspection
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Basically, no access for third parties
Aargau, Obwalden, Nidwalden, Glarus, train, Solothurn, Basel-Stadt, Basel-Land, Grisons, Ticino, Appenzell Inner Rhodes, Thurgau, Geneva and
Jura.
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